Trouble setting the resolution? This is what I did!

[exfileme]

I was recently reviewing an Acer Predator laptop, and Civilization VI is one of our benchmarks. We test the game at a 1080p resolution, but the graphics settings were stuck in some wacky low resolution, and in borderless window mode. No matter how many times I tried to change the settings to full-screen 1080p, the game just wouldn't save the settings.

I then hunted down the game's GraphicsOptions.txt config file (Documents/My Games/Civ VI), and forced the 1.920 x 1,080 resolution. But when I loaded up the game, it wasn't scaling to the physical limits of the screen, expanding into infinity. That told me the game wasn't scaling itself correctly, and that I needed Windows 10 to handle scaling instead.

To do that, I right-clicked on both executables in the game's folder in the Steam directory (Civ VI/Base/Binaries/Win64Steam), chose Properties, clicked the Compatibility tab, and checked the "Override high DPI scaling behavior." I changed this setting from "application" to "system."

Hope this helps if you're having resolution/scaling issues with this game.

[nexusbhai]

Thanks for the info. I tried to find the resolution value in the graphics text file and could not find it. My problem is that I am normally connected to a 1920x1220 res monitor and now that I on my regular 1920x1080 screen, the game did not change to the native settings and I can't change the resolution as the "click area" is out of the screen for me.

[kek24]

thanks, helped me a lot (3 years later - in 2020)

[Lothrien]

For anybody who might find this, the resolution settings are now in the AppOptions.txt file. (in Documents/My Games/Civ VI)

@nexusbhai

[Silent G]

On Windows 10 the Documents\My Games\Civilization VI folder is a hidden folder under Windows so if you have default Windows settings you will not be able to see this folder to access AppOptions.txt

My son was having issues with the resolution being too high and the DPI scale setting did not fix this but AppOptions.txt for render did fix this but the directory is hidden which is confusing for many people.